Ted, In order for your cellphone to work in the Bahamas, your provider must have a written agreement with BATELCO (Bahamas Telephone Company) for reimbursement of charges. I have a list of some 48 companies that now have agreements. That said, there are plenty of problems. First, just because your cellphone provider has an agreement with BATELCO does not mean your cellphone will work in the Bahamas. In some cases, the providers network was never turned on and thus none of their customers can use their cellphone in the Bahamas. Even if your network is turned on in the Bahamas, it does not mean your cellphone will work. The antenna network is not complete and their are a lot of dead areas in the Bahamas. Just as bad, some of the existing towers are down for maintenance and not working. (Just like their lighted channel markers - at any given time it is estimated that 50% of the lighted navigation markers in the Bahamas are not working) Plain and simple, cellphone coverage in the Bahamas is not very reliable and is quite expensive when it works. If you feel you must have a cellphone, you might want to try signing up with BATLECO and use their network. The deposit is substantial and the problems of poor coverage and towers that don't work still exist for their own network. The public pay phone system works fairly well in the Bahamas. Virtually every community has one or more pay phones. You buy a prepaid card and at a dollar a minute you can call anywhere in the US. You say, you are concerned about wanting to make a call from a remote location with no pay phone. Well guess what, the towers used to provide the pay phones are the same ones used to provide cellular phones. If you are in an area without pay phones there is a good possibility that your cellphone will not work either. The long and the short of it, is that cellphone usage in the Bahamas is chancy at best. For my money I wouldn't even consider it. Most of the people I know have their cellphones put on "vacation" while in the Bahamas and then turn them back on when they get back to the states. In reference to the above information I am referring to the more remote locations and not Nassau and Freeport. Of course coverage is good there, but then there are thousands of payphones there as well. Bob Skipper Bob Publications Web page: Http://SkipperBob.home.att.net